Bio

Dr Gyda M. Sindre is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Politics and IR at the University of York. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics, international relations and peace and conflict studies. Her main projects and publications focus on the political transformation of armed groups, post-war politics and peacebuilding, political parties and protest movements. She is the founder of the Politics After War Network (www.politicsafterwar.com) and her work on post-conflict politics, particularly on the conversion of armed groups into political parties has helped shaped that field of study. Her research has appeared in leading journals such as Political Geography, Government and Opposition, Party Politics and Civil Wars. She is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Political Parties (2023) and How former rebel parties shape peace, democracy and stability: From guns to governing (2023). She works closely with policy makers in the field of democracy support, political party development, peacebuilding and DDR. Dr Sindre is currently Director of the School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of York. She was previously a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow at the University of Cambridge.